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Pneumatic Shoe Lacing Apparatus

This invention provides a pneumatic shoe lacing apparatus for the pneumatic lacing of shoe.

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Attorney: Jones; Thomas H., Adams; Harold W., Manning; John R.


Number of patents: 28
Last date: March 31, 1992

NumberTitleIssue Date
5101361Analog hardware for delta-backpropagation neural networks
This is a fully parallel analog backpropagation learning processor which comprises a plurality of programmable resistive memory elements serving as synapse connections whose values can be weighted during learning with buffer amplifiers, summing circuits, ...
03/31/1992
5075243Fabrication of nanometer single crystal metallic CoSi2 structures on Si
Amorphous Co:Si (1:2 ratio) films (12) are electron gun-evaporated on clean Si(111) substrates (10), such as in a molecular beam epitaxy system. These layers are then crystallized selectively with a focused electron beam (14) to form very small crystallin...
12/24/1991
5066337Thermal power transfer system using applied potential difference to sustain operating pressure difference
A thermal power transfer system using a phase change liquid gas fluid in a closed loop configuration has a heat exchanger member connected to a gas conduit for inputting thermal energy into the fluid. The pressure in the gas conduit is higher than a liqui...
11/19/1991
5065236Stereoscopic camera and viewing systems with undistorted depth presentation and reduced or eliminated erroneous acceleration and deceleration perceptions, or with perceptions produced or enhanced for special effects
Methods for providing stereoscopic image presentation and stereoscopic configurations using stereoscopic viewing systems having converged or parallel cameras may be set up to reduce or eliminate erroneously perceived accelerations and decelerations by pro...
11/12/1991
5063747Multicomponent gas sorption Joule-Thomson refrigeration
The present invention relates to a cryogenic Joule-Thomson refrigeration capable of pumping multicomponent gases with a single stage sorption compressor system. Alternative methods of pumping a multicomponent gas with a single stage compressor are disclos...
11/12/1991
5062693All-optical photochromic spatial light modulators based on photoinduced electron transfer in rigid matrices
A single material (not a multi-element structure) spatial light modulator (50) may be written to (30), as well as read out from (80), using light (20). The device has tailorable rise and hold times dependent on the composition and concentration of the mol...
11/05/1991
5059581Passivation of high temperature superconductors
The surface of high temperature superconductors such as YBa2 Cu3 O7-x are passivated by reacting the native Y, Ba and Cu metal ions with an anion such as sulfate or oxalate to form a surface film that is impervious to wate...
10/22/1991
5057843Method for providing a polarization filter for processing synthetic aperture radar image data
A polarization filter can maximize the signal-to-noise ratio of a polarimetric SAR and help discriminate between targets or enhance image features, e.g., enhance contract between different types of target. The method disclosed is based on the Stokes matri...
10/15/1991
5057473Regenerative Cu La zeolite supported desulfurizing sorbents
Efficient, regenerable sorbents for removal of H2 S from fluid hydrocarbons such as diesel fuel at moderate condition comprise a porous, high surface area aluminosilicate support, suitably a synthetic zeolite, and most preferably a zeolite havi...
10/15/1991
5056037Analog hardware for learning neural networks
This is a recurrent or feedforward analog neural network processor having a multi-level neuron array and a synaptic matrix for storing weighted analog values of synaptic connection strengths which is characterized by temporarily changing one connection st...
10/08/1991
5055240Method and apparatus for producing microshells
A method is described for forming hollow particles, or shells, of extremely small size. The shell material is heated to a molten temperature in the presence of a gas that is at least moderately soluble in the shell material, to form a solution of the molt...
10/08/1991
5049796Robust high-performance control for robotic manipulators
Model-based and performance-based control techniques are combined for an electrical robotic control system. Thus, two distinct and separate design philosophies have been merged into a single control system having a control law formulation including two di...
09/17/1991
5048023Asymmetric soft-error resistant memory
A memory system is provided, of the type which includes an error-correcting circuit that detects and corrects errors, which more efficiently utilizes the capacity of a memory formed of groups of binary cells whose states can be inadvertently switched by i...
09/10/1991
5047700Universal computer control system for motors
A control system for a multi-motor system such as a space telerobot having a remote computational node and a local computational node inter-connected with one another by a high speed data link is described. A Universal Computer Control System (UCCS) for t...
09/10/1991
5031689Flexible thermal apparatus for mounting of thermoelectric cooler
A flexible heat transfer apparatus used to flexibly connect and thermally couple a thermoelectric cooler to an object to be cooled. The flexible heat transfer apparatus consists of a pair of flexible corrugated sheets made from high thermal conductivity m...
07/16/1991
5031089Dynamic resource allocation scheme for distributed heterogeneous computer systems
In a distributed heterogeneous computer system having a plurality of computer nodes each operatively connected through a network interface to a network to provide for communications and transfers of data between the nodes and wherein the nodes each have a...
07/09/1991
5027182High-gain AlGaAs/GaAs double heterojunction Darlington phototransistors for optical neural networks
High-gain MOCVD-grown (metal-organic chemical vapor deposition) AlGaAs/GaAs/AlGaAs n-p-n double heterojunction bipolar transistors (DHBTs) (14) and Darlington phototransistor pairs (14, 16) are provided for use in optical neural networks and other optoele...
06/25/1991
5026008Fluid-loop reaction system
An improved fluid actuating system for imparting motion to a body such as a spacecraft is disclosed. The fluid actuating system consists of a fluid mass that may be controllably accelerated through at least one fluid path whereby an opposite acceleration ...
06/25/1991
5025455Phase ambiguity resolution for offset QPSK modulation systems
A demodulator for OQPSK signals modulated with two unique words resolves eight possible cominbations of phase ambiguity which may product data error by first processing received IR and QR data in an integrated carrier loop/symbol syn...
06/18/1991
5019824Multistage estimation of received carrier signal parameters under very high dynamic conditions of the receiver
A multistage estimator is provided for the parameters of a received carrier signal possibly phase-modulated by unknown data and experiencing very high Doppler, Doppler rate, etc., as may arise, for example, in the case of Global Positioning Systems (GPS) ...
05/28/1991
5019533Thermal treatment of silicon integrated circuit chips to prevent and heal voids in aluminum metallization
Voids in aluminum metallization conductors on a chip are avoided or healed after the chip is subjected to thermal treatment at a high temperature sufficient to allow diffusion of silicon by rapidly cooling the chip, preferably by immersion of the chip in ...
05/28/1991
5019470Metal chloride cathode for a battery
In a method of fabricating a rechargeable battery which includes a positive electrode which contains a chloride of a selected metal when the electrode is in its active state, the improvement comprising fabricating the positive electrode by: providing a po...
05/28/1991
5018852Motion detection, novelty filtering, and target tracking using an interferometric technique with GaAs phase conjugate mirror
A method and apparatus for detecting and tracking moving objects in a noise environment cluttered with fast- and slow-moving objects and other time-varying background. A pair of phase conjugate light beams carrying the same spatial information commonly ca...
05/28/1991
5017883Multiple symbol differential detection
A differential detection technique for MPSL signals is provided which uses a multiple symbol observation interval on the basis of which a joint decision is made regarding the phase of the received symbols. In accordance with the invention, a first differe...
05/21/1991
5016063Molecular implementation of molecular shift register memories
An electronic shift register memory (20) at the molecular level is described. The memory elements are based on a chain of electron transfer molecules (22) and the information is shifted by photoinduced (26) electron transfer reactions. Thus, multi-step se...
05/14/1991
5011907Molecules with enhanced electronic polarizabilities based on "defect"-like states in conjugated polymers
Highly conjugated organic polymers typically have large non-resonant electronic susceptibilities, which give the molecules unusual optical properties. To enhance these properties, "defects" are introduced into the polymer chain. Examples include light dop...
04/30/1991
5007068Doppler-corrected differential detection system
Doppler in a communication system operating with a multiple differential phase-shift-keyed format ("MDPSK") creates an adverse phase shift in an incoming signal. An open loop frequency estimation is derived from a Doppler-contaminated incoming signal. Bas...
04/09/1991
5005954Method and apparatus for second-rank tensor generation
A method and apparatus for generation of second-rank tensors using a photorefractive crystal to perform the outer-product between two vectors via four-wave mixing, thereby taking 2n input data to a control n2 output data points. Two orthogonal ...
04/09/1991
 
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